Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Five

Whitey Gets an Object Lesson in Being a Health Nut and a Sociopath Assuming you’re able to look past the fact that a guy was shot in the face to make the gag happen, this is a pretty funny story. According to former Whitey associate Kevin Weeks, Whitey was hunting for a guy in aContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Five”

Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Four

His Brother is the Dean Martin of Massachusetts Politics If Ann Coulter described her nightmare vision of DemocRAT-ruled Tax-achussets, it would likely look exactly like the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfasts put on for years by former Massachusetts State Senate President and brother of Whitey Billy Bulger. I’m a liberal Democrat of Irish extraction andContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Four”

Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Two

He (Probably) Won the Lottery Without Ever Buying a ticket: Here’s the constant calculation that probably goes through former South Boston working man Michael C. Linskey’s mind: he only gets one part of his lottery winnings, but if had never bought a lottery ticket at Whitey Bulger’s liquor store, he never would have won theContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Two”

Eponymous Gangster Week Begins: Don’t Call me Bulger…Whitey

It was a good run. From May 2 to June 22, I shared a last name with number one most wanted man in America (alphabetically: the list isn’t weighted by severity of crime, despite how that would make for a fun debate about whether wiretapping was worse than extortion and whatnot).